Top Finance Technology Startups in 2026

YipitData is the leading market research firm for the disruptive economy and recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B. We analyze billions of data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights on ridesharing, e-commerce marketplaces, payments and more. Our on-demand insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean and analyze the data many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. We are one of Inc’s Best Workplaces - a fast-growing technology company with offices located in NYC (where we are based in), Hong Kong, and Shanghai, backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners with a strong culture focused on mastery, ownership, and transparency.

Hello, we're Cedar! Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. Our technology improves the overall experience of patient billing and engagement, enabling healthcare providers to thrive in a rapidly changing environment while helping patients understand the cost of their care. Why Work with Us? Cedar offers the opportunity to work with a smart experienced team to solve an important problem that affects millions of patients annually as well as the chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage. We offer competitive pay, great healthcare and stock options, not to mention daily team lunch and unlimited snacks!

Trying to manually track crypto taxes gets complicated fast. TaxBit's tax engine supports transactions between any crypto or fiat currency in the world. TaxBit automatically calculates your cost basis, gains or losses, and subsequent taxes of every trade in real-time, giving you total insight into the tax impact of your trades.

Tipalti provides a holistic, multi-entity accounts payable solution. Organizations that employ Tipalti typically reduce 80% of their supplier payments workflow and are able to move towards a cost-neutral payables operation. Tipalti runs on a secure, cloud-based platform that includes a brandable supplier portal to enhances self-service, a true OCR-driven touchless invoice processing automation workflow with two-way and three-way PO matching, a KPMG-certified tax compliance module, global payment remittance to over 190 countries and 120 currencies across six payment methods, a friction-less early payments capability that streamlines negotiation and adoption, and bi-directional, real-time payment reconciliation. Tipalti is trusted by Amazon, GoDaddy, Roku, Twitter, and hundreds of other innovative companies looking to transform payables so their finance teams can focus on more strategic efforts and company growth.

Robinhood is on a mission to democratize our financial system. We believe it should work for everyone and not just a few. We offer commission-free trading in one, user-friendly platform. Since our public launch in 2015, we’ve enabled millions of people to participate in the markets, cementing us as one of the fastest-growing brokerage firm ever in terms of customer accounts. Robinhood has been recognized as a CNBC Disruptor 50 and the 11th Most Innovative Company in the World by Fast Company. Robinhood's products have won the Apple Design Award, the Google Material Design Award, Fast Company's Innovation by Design award, and many others.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest, transparent, and friendly. Our mission is simple: deliver honest financial products to improve lives. Started by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Affirm gives you the flexibility to buy now and make simple monthly payments for big purchases. Unlike traditional credit options, we show you exactly what you’ll owe up front: no penalty fees, no compounding interest. By letting you pay over time, Affirm is empowering consumers to advance their financial well-being.

Dave is a mission-driven banking app that helps over 4 million members thrive, and not just survive, between paychecks. We solve our customers' immediate pain points and change their financial lives with $100 cash advances, side gigs, and automated budgeting. Built for humans, not overdraft fees, Dave shares its revenue with charities to feed families and plant trees. In just 2 years, we have become LA's newest tech unicorn with over $100 million in funding, millions of paying members, and an aggressive expansion plan.

Plaid is focused on democratizing financial services through technology. We build beautiful consumer experiences, developer-friendly infrastructure, and intelligent tools that give everyone the ability to create Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

AppZen delivers the world’s leading AI platform for modern finance teams. Starting with business spend, we automate manual process, uncover problems, and optimize decision making for enterprises around the globe, including one-fourth of the Fortune 500. Our platform combines patented deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis with intelligence from thousands of online data sources to understand financial transactions in business context and make decisions before those transactions happen. AppZen is a must-have for CFOs and their teams to reduce spend, comply with policy, and streamline process.

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